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Notte di maggio is a gorgeous, impressionistic tone poem for voice and orchestra dating from 1913, making it one of Alfredo Casella’s early works. Full
Paul Schoenfield’s music blends accessible modernism with sophisticated wit built on a solid foundation of popular, jazz, and Jewish sources, all of which are in
Here’s the way I began my last review of a new recording of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater: “Just when you question the need for yet another
The title of this album, “The Secrets of Dvorák’s Cello Concerto”, is deceptive. There are no secrets here, and no mysteries revealed. Indeed, the program
Although Alessandro Scarlatti was best known in his day for his prolific vocal oeuvre (more than 60 operas, 33 oratorios, and 700 cantatas, among hundreds
Let the musicologists and other critics analyze, discuss, and debate C.P.E. Bach’s role as a Baroque/Classical, Classical/Romantic transitional figure–meanwhile the rest of us will simply
Every 10 years or so, record companies like to root around their catalogs, resurrect good samples, pair them up differently from their original incarnations, and
Although all of the works on this two-CD program have received fine renditions on previous recordings, you won’t find better performances than these, and to
Putting together all of Dvorák’s “other” music for cello and orchestra makes a great deal of sense. His early Cello Concerto in A is an
Richard Hickox’s performances of these two symphonies for Chandos are very good; indeed, his take on the first movement of the Sixth Symphony, so redolent
